Test 6 · Famous discoveries told as stories
Gran: "fizzy drinks were invented by a drinks factory". Who really made the first soda water?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: a · What happens: invent, drink, make · To what, where: fizzy drinks, factory, first soda water
This is test 6 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Gran: "fizzy drinks were invented by a drinks factory".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 invented | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 drinks | punct |
| 4 | fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drinks | amod |
| 5 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invented | aux:pass |
| 7 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Gran | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 drinks | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 drinks | nsubj |
| 10 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 invented | advcl |
| 11 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drinks | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 drinks | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent in a quote | past · passive | fizzy drinks | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | present | a | factory | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factory=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: Who really made the first soda water?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 water | amod |
| 6 | soda | soda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the first soda water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Product |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Joseph Priestley, a scientist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Priestley | Priestley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Joseph | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scientist | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scientist | det |
| 5 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Joseph | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mendeleev, with his cards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mendeleev | Mendeleev | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cards | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 cards | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cards | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mendeleev | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Alexander Fleming, by accident
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Fleming | Fleming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accident | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 accident | case |
| 5 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Marie Curie, in Paris
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Curie | Curie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Paris | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Paris | case |
| 5 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | parataxis |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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